i just wish channels would make their own stylised thumbnails, it doesn't have to be anything crazy but the fact i scroll through youtube and see the same 3 types of thumbnails from different channels makes youtube look so much more boring.
I draw weird pictures on some of mine but they don’t get a ton of views…. Unfortunately it’s likely a situation where more saturated and obnoxious thumbnails get more clicks than genuinely nice looking ones. Algorithms drunk tbh
It’s a symptom of a bigger problem, which is that TH-cam is soulless now. There’s an incredulous lack of passion and creativity, and the cut and paste editing style in almost EVERY video essay of the stupid camera snap sound effect and the heavy swoops with that disgusting rice gum transition on every shot is just more fuel to that. Everyone sounds the same, does the same thing, and nothing feels special anymore. It’s skating closer and closer to normalizing brain dead and monotonous content that an AI could (and already) churn out.
Reminds me when PewDiePie once said that everyone is gonna look the same. Edit: went to find the video I referenced, it's called "TH-cam is stinky", and see how many points he mentioned apply to current TH-cam.
I still think my fav thumbnails are the art ones, the gaming VOD artist drawn stylized thumbnails that have been fading out in exchange for that copypaste pog face or sad, scared, excited face. I hate how scrolling through gaming channels now and it's all the same three poses where they digitally changed their shirt colour so it doesn't look like spam. it's sucks
Y’know, I may have times where I’m not satisfied with a thumbnail I make, but at least they’re better than whatever these are supposed to be. Also my most hated thumbnails are ones by drama TH-camrs where they have someone’s face with blacked out eyes, white text on the right with one word casting a red shadow/background. God those are annoying.
I didn't know you liked Top Gear, Noice. 👍 Anyway, I would agree with how bland & generic most thumbnails are nowadays, they just lack style & blend together.
Oh wow, I thought about this thumbnail thing when I started my channel a few months ago, I felt making thumbnails that are so common around youtube felt like doing a copying job I wouldn't like doing artistically so I'm making my own custom thumbnails that are personalized & fun to me :) I'm glad I went with my gut feeling after watching your video thank you for reassuring me, I'll like & subscribe great work here
The best part is the channels that make decent content, but they keep using the same three faces for their thumbnail. It genuinely makes me not want to watch sometimes, and I don't know why because the thumbnail isn't even a huge part of the content.
I always hate the soyface thumbnails, it doesn't wanna make me watch the video, I kinda makes me usually pass on the video It could be interesting or boring but I wouldn't know due to my brain mentally organizing what videos interest and not
Some of my favorite thumbnails are from "Totally Not Mark". When a video is about a show, he usually places a character on one side and text on the other, over a simple background. However, his thumbnails are well-designed and stylized, you can tell he puts effort into them, they're not just thrown together randomly, but fit together
Making my own videos, I´ve been learning a lot about thumbnails. And the more I learn the less I understand. Cause I´ll try and replicate a thumbnail that seems to have worked really well and then have the lowest performing video on the channel ever.
Nah but like Robin Williams death makes me sad to this day. I can't tell him that he helped me laugh when everything was bleak. I wanted to meet him eventually, and I didn't actually realized how much he meant until he died. 8:43 Nah. I suspected something was up with him. He was too nice.
There's an extension called DeArrow that removes clickbait from TH-cam. Yes, there are other extensions that do the same but DeArrow takes it to a whole new level by allowing custom thumbnails and titles. It's like an antidote for brainrot and ragebait
honestly i think it depends on the person who sees the thumbnails, some people dont really care about like super high quality thumbnails and would generally prefer something a bit more simple and easy to look at, others prefer hyper edited content and over exaggerated thumbnails, personally speaking i prefer simpler thumbnails (by simple i mean it generally conveys what the idea of the video is going to be about) and its what compels me to watch the video and be interested)
What about reaction channels?? Most of those thumbnails use a red background along with the same png of a shocked person (kinda like ssdoxxerwolf) on the right.
This is the reason why on my other Channel ive been making my own thumbnails for a good while. I also commission art pieces for for more edited stuff. Its a fun challenge to try and take what you talk about in a video then translate it to an image
Thumbnails might be on a slow death (or atleast won't be very important for a video's performance in the future) given youtube has released features like playback feed making catchy intros more important than thumbnails
Honestly the thumbnails I hate the most are the obviously photoshopped gory animal thumbnails with sHoCkInG titles that you will inevitably run into whenever you look up a wild animal
I figured out that YT thumbnails sucked years ago. I installed the Revanced APK and it came with an option to un-clickbait thumbnails, by selecting a random still image from the video. I can never go back.
My least favorite thumbnails are ones that put an important part of the video title in the thumbnail, but they leave that part out of the actual title! For example, the thumbnail might have text that says "Why TH-cam Thumbnails Suck" and the video in question is titled "And How to Fix Them". There's a plethora of accessibility issues that stem from this. What if someone comes across this video while browsing TH-cam with a screen reader, most of which don't try to read text from images? What if someone sees just the title of this video in their notifications when it comes out? What if someone simply has slow internet and the thumbnail doesn't load for them? In any case, they'll never know what "And How to Fix Them" is about. By trying to make the thumbnail take the role of the title, the title ends up losing its purpose when it matters most.
0:19 I KNOW THAT VIDEO!! In high school i had this bad habit of cyberstalking my teachers and my junior year english teacher's brother is actually the one in the thumbnail. Fish boys 4 life
LSMark will pay
On the same day and around the same hours, it was no coincident ls mark is out for u and its part of youtubes plan to shut you down.
came here to say this
In cash money of course!
@@Theqwackster With his address?
@@Randomlad.0737Certainly!
I just clicked on the thumbnail and it started talking holy crap
i just wish channels would make their own stylised thumbnails, it doesn't have to be anything crazy but the fact i scroll through youtube and see the same 3 types of thumbnails from different channels makes youtube look so much more boring.
yub thumbnails
I draw weird pictures on some of mine but they don’t get a ton of views…. Unfortunately it’s likely a situation where more saturated and obnoxious thumbnails get more clicks than genuinely nice looking ones. Algorithms drunk tbh
@@BaxterSqueeyour thumbnails are cool!!
@@tacosarentreal oh thanks
It feels like it's part of a hivemind or they all just share the same template lmao
that’s a fun intro
It’s a symptom of a bigger problem, which is that TH-cam is soulless now. There’s an incredulous lack of passion and creativity, and the cut and paste editing style in almost EVERY video essay of the stupid camera snap sound effect and the heavy swoops with that disgusting rice gum transition on every shot is just more fuel to that. Everyone sounds the same, does the same thing, and nothing feels special anymore. It’s skating closer and closer to normalizing brain dead and monotonous content that an AI could (and already) churn out.
Reminds me when PewDiePie once said that everyone is gonna look the same.
Edit: went to find the video I referenced, it's called "TH-cam is stinky", and see how many points he mentioned apply to current TH-cam.
every thumbnail is bad except for mine
Hi:3
pvz goat
Thats right choopo!
He’s not wrong
Ngl i beat it to your tumbnails
Im obsessed with this channel rn
You’re a funny and also silly dude Mr Nomad
Oh hey it’s my favourite commentary channel!
Love you too!! ❤😊🥰😋
oh my god its saverino of maryland
oh no way i found you you watch him too
I hate the thumbnails that say things like "pedophile" when that's never been proven
Loser
Creep
Pedo
God i love small youtube channels
modern day thumbnails build intrigue but forget to make me want to watch the actual video.
Dude, you cover all the angles, you’re organized, and you don’t waste any time. Don’t stop. Your work is a diamond in the rough!
as a blind man, i dont get it
oh crap my eyes were just closed and it all makes sense now
ur thumbnail made me giggle ty
At least the thumbnails today arent neon yellow or a eyesore
beautiful how i saw three thumbnails that looked just like the one you used
This is oddly the best TH-cam thumbnail advice I have heard on youtube in the intro
Pyrocynical is reacting to this video right now
braping just for him
@@HeartOfNoMadbrap wood (stand up)
I still think my fav thumbnails are the art ones, the gaming VOD artist drawn stylized thumbnails that have been fading out in exchange for that copypaste pog face or sad, scared, excited face. I hate how scrolling through gaming channels now and it's all the same three poses where they digitally changed their shirt colour so it doesn't look like spam. it's sucks
The nomad-flazefire-chazington crossover is crazy
Y’know, I may have times where I’m not satisfied with a thumbnail I make, but at least they’re better than whatever these are supposed to be.
Also my most hated thumbnails are ones by drama TH-camrs where they have someone’s face with blacked out eyes, white text on the right with one word casting a red shadow/background. God those are annoying.
I didn't know you liked Top Gear, Noice. 👍
Anyway, I would agree with how bland & generic most thumbnails are nowadays, they just lack style & blend together.
Also LSmark just released a video on a similar topic to your vid, so the algorithm will definitely fuck off with your video.
Mr NoMad, if you are missing JCS, I recommend to you Matt Orchard. Good video as always
Oh wow, I thought about this thumbnail thing when I started my channel a few months ago, I felt making thumbnails that are so common around youtube felt like doing a copying job I wouldn't like doing artistically so I'm making my own custom thumbnails that are personalized & fun to me :) I'm glad I went with my gut feeling after watching your video thank you for reassuring me, I'll like & subscribe great work here
That transition from clicking on the video was awesome.
The best part is the channels that make decent content, but they keep using the same three faces for their thumbnail. It genuinely makes me not want to watch sometimes, and I don't know why because the thumbnail isn't even a huge part of the content.
I always hate the soyface thumbnails, it doesn't wanna make me watch the video, I kinda makes me usually pass on the video
It could be interesting or boring but I wouldn't know due to my brain mentally organizing what videos interest and not
-50/10 vid not enough colors and sound effects but 10/10 for the green screen on the door
the duality of the youtube audience
Did you and LSMark plan out making videos about very similar topics, complaining about those white background black text thumbnails?
LScuck WISHES he had this much foresight bro
You are one of the most original youtubers I have found in recent times!
I replayed this intro more than 5 times and it's so addicting loll
this video came out shortly after NeatOnTheRocks' video about changing the way we make thumbnails
Some of my favorite thumbnails are from "Totally Not Mark". When a video is about a show, he usually places a character on one side and text on the other, over a simple background. However, his thumbnails are well-designed and stylized, you can tell he puts effort into them, they're not just thrown together randomly, but fit together
Making my own videos, I´ve been learning a lot about thumbnails. And the more I learn the less I understand. Cause I´ll try and replicate a thumbnail that seems to have worked really well and then have the lowest performing video on the channel ever.
The transition from the thumbnail to the video was so clean tho
0:29 i know that it's absurdly specific but is that the super smash bros brawl render background gradient
god i hopethis gets answered
I’m pretty sure that is
you and LS mark came out with the same video today lmao
omg LS mark
ZOMG LS Markuckold mentioned!!!1!1!1
LS MARK MENTIONED
13:55 CHAZINGTON IN A NOMAD VIDEO!?!?!?
Jonochrome vs the bad thumbnails
I'm not thinking about schlatt anymore
Never thought I'd see a brief Chazington mention on this channel
Nah but like Robin Williams death makes me sad to this day. I can't tell him that he helped me laugh when everything was bleak. I wanted to meet him eventually, and I didn't actually realized how much he meant until he died.
8:43
Nah. I suspected something was up with him. He was too nice.
No way you are only at 25k. As a small creator this type of content is so impressive to me. Anyways have a blessed day.
There's an extension called DeArrow that removes clickbait from TH-cam. Yes, there are other extensions that do the same but DeArrow takes it to a whole new level by allowing custom thumbnails and titles. It's like an antidote for brainrot and ragebait
i honestly thought this was only a problem in the Cartoon community, but apparently it's a TH-cam wide issue. Huh
Honestly, youtube thumbnails have been so bad, I had to add a clickbait remover extension to my browser
How does it determine what's clickbait?
@@musicalpuppies123 it doesn't, it just replaces every single thumbnail lmao
@@abigguy354how does that work, like it just picks a timestamp for thumbnail like the default TH-cam thing?
@@jackieAZ exactly! it's called " Clickbait Remover for TH-cam " on the chrome webstore if you're interested
I actually saw like 10 other videos surrounding this one with the exact same thumbnail format
honestly i think it depends on the person who sees the thumbnails, some people dont really care about like super high quality thumbnails and would generally prefer something a bit more simple and easy to look at, others prefer hyper edited content and over exaggerated thumbnails, personally speaking i prefer simpler thumbnails (by simple i mean it generally conveys what the idea of the video is going to be about) and its what compels me to watch the video and be interested)
What about reaction channels??
Most of those thumbnails use a red background along with the same png of a shocked person (kinda like ssdoxxerwolf) on the right.
This is the reason why on my other Channel ive been making my own thumbnails for a good while. I also commission art pieces for for more edited stuff. Its a fun challenge to try and take what you talk about in a video then translate it to an image
seems like there be TH-camrs who copy other people’s thumbnails without understanding why it works
Well shit now I feel like I gotta go through every video I’ve uploaded and change the thumbnail
Colours! Colours! Colours!
Spongehinge theory is from Alex bale
Thumbnails might be on a slow death (or atleast won't be very important for a video's performance in the future) given youtube has released features like playback feed making catchy intros more important than thumbnails
Honestly the thumbnails I hate the most are the obviously photoshopped gory animal thumbnails with sHoCkInG titles that you will inevitably run into whenever you look up a wild animal
thumbnails have always been a tedious game but if it works it works
Don’t disrespect the goat karsten runquist
As an avid fan of TD Bloons, I must remind you to finish that TD Bloons 3 tribute
I am so sick of seeing 'its over' on thumbnails, especially in white and red.
Do a next video on how to use a story arc in a video instead of just cutting it off after 15 minutes
Intro goes crazy
If only people saw the channel's names instead of the thumbnails...
3:58 woah i recognize that person
i feel called out
The Brawl radiant goes hard
I figured out that YT thumbnails sucked years ago. I installed the Revanced APK and it came with an option to un-clickbait thumbnails, by selecting a random still image from the video. I can never go back.
Getting Meta is truly one of the things to do
My least favorite thumbnails are ones that put an important part of the video title in the thumbnail, but they leave that part out of the actual title! For example, the thumbnail might have text that says "Why TH-cam Thumbnails Suck" and the video in question is titled "And How to Fix Them". There's a plethora of accessibility issues that stem from this. What if someone comes across this video while browsing TH-cam with a screen reader, most of which don't try to read text from images? What if someone sees just the title of this video in their notifications when it comes out? What if someone simply has slow internet and the thumbnail doesn't load for them? In any case, they'll never know what "And How to Fix Them" is about. By trying to make the thumbnail take the role of the title, the title ends up losing its purpose when it matters most.
The thumbnail situation is insane
Hi NoMad 👋
I like your videos
TH-camr thumbnails (like the the text next to the creator) is more dry then the robloxs homepage bro istg
nomad please never give in
I clicked the thumbnail because it was funny
were eating good nomad uploaded
I came here to say i really liked that thumbnail and first few seconds of the video it was really cool
this was unforgiveable
gonna use this information for a good thumbnail thanks
Man with the funny voice is talking again lettuce hear his wisdom
Or perhaps lettest us hearn't his dumbn't.
"its just- its toon"
TOOON?? DOCTOON????????
After watching this, I'm gonna go to the store and buy a clipper for my thumbnails.
Titles suck too!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SILLY FUN TITLES
The Death Of Good TH-cam Titles
@@Frongo The Enshittification of TH-cam Titles (1/)
1:37 has me dead
He's no longer thinking about Schlatt
That one dude who reviews obscure cartoons lmao
You look like a grown up version of the kid from the pixar movie Luca.
this is exactly why i can't watch youtube without the dearrow extension.
The combat sports side of youtube are all white thumbnails
How did I see this so quick
Not me seeing this thumbnail and comparing to others nearby, turns out 90% of them were basically it even if I know the video is good
Wow Nomad. OKAY.. OKAY..... Stealing my topic before me.. OKAY....
0:19 I KNOW THAT VIDEO!! In high school i had this bad habit of cyberstalking my teachers and my junior year english teacher's brother is actually the one in the thumbnail. Fish boys 4 life
most mainstream youtubers do that yea, i try to avoid these youtubers
Thank god someone’s saying it
jokes on u I got an ad
Wow you were faster than ls mark
the youtube thumbnail situation is awful
NoMad go to homecoming with me.
I like OutterBlack thumbnails his character is stupidly funny😂
6:36 karsten runquist 🗿
holy shit, a video not about paul shlartt mall cop
you are flazefire you cant convince me otherwise
Woah and oh needs to be on a t shirt